Boy playing the bagpipes
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This small statue of a naked boy playing the bagpipes was probably originally part of an altarpiece. This exquisitely modelled life-size figure is attributed to Andrea della Robbia, a member of a famous Florentine family of sculptors. Several large altarpieces by the Della Robbia family show similar naked boys - some of them with musical instruments - high up on the architectural framework. It is stylistically close to two winged putti on the cornice of an altarpiece supplied by Andrea della Robbia to the Church of the Santi Apostoli in Florence in 1512.
Trained as a marble sculptor in the studio of his uncle Luca, Andrea della Robbia also became an excellent modeller, unrivalled in his ability to capture the life of his subjects in glazed clay. His best-known works are 10 roundels of infants on the façade of Florence's Foundling Hospital (about 1487).
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